if I suggested playing one other than Risk
ha.my dad does that playing scrabble - stares at his tiles for hours them puts down a 2 letter word.
Caracassonne* does look good. Sadly, I don't really know anyone who'd be up for boardgames beyond the occasional round of scrabble or backgammon.
I'm a huge board game fan. I started way back when with HeroQuest and Space Crusade (my first foray into games was Crossbows & Catapults, but I suppose it's debateable whether or not that's a board game), and then Advanced HeroQuest and Space Crusade, Warhammer Quest, Blood Bowl and other Games Workshop Games.
Space Hulk was my favorite then, and the newer edition is one of my favorites now. It has incredible atmosphere for a boardgame. It's intense, suspenseful, with plenty of of action. Just an outstanding game.
I meet with a boardgaming group every two weeks, and some of our favorites are Descent, Last Night on Earth and Mansions of Madness. Zombies!! gets a lot of play, too, because it's incredibly cusomizable, and you can tailor the simple rule system to pretty much any style of game you want to play.
My girlsfriend and I play Catan, 7 Wonders and Small World, all three great fun.
Good thread, glad you posted it.
Anyone play this?
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I'll be checking out Netrunner,sounds good from what ive heard.
Also is that Richard 'Magic the Gathering' Garfield whos made that? Good pedigree!
He kind of designed it. Back in the day in the '90s he made a collectible card game called Netrunner, a spin off of the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG. Fantasy Flight Games brought the rights, rejigged it to the setting of their Android/Infiltration games and changed it from a collectible card to a ''living card game" i.e no buying packs of randomly assorted cards, all sets come with the same cards so you know what to buy to build what decks you want.
I'll be checking out Netrunner,sounds good from what ive heard.
Also is that Richard 'Magic the Gathering' Garfield whos made that? Good pedigree!
He kind of designed it. Back in the day in the '90s he made a collectible card game called Netrunner, a spin off of the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG. Fantasy Flight Games brought the rights, rejigged it to the setting of their Android/Infiltration games and changed it from a collectible card to a ''living card game" i.e no buying packs of randomly assorted cards, all sets come with the same cards so you know what to buy to build what decks you want.
You people need to be watching/reading the following sites to keep up to date with these things!
http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/ (http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/) For reviews with a British flavour
http://www.dicetower.com/ (http://www.dicetower.com/) For reviews with an American flavour
http://boardgamegeek.com/ (http://boardgamegeek.com/) For everything you could possibly need.
Oh yeah, where's Tordelback? I'd thought he'd be all over this thread!
While I've never played it, Lords of Waterdeep completely fascinates me,
Ah, never mind - I misremembered, it was James Stacey!
Would really appreciate if anyone has any suggestions for games along the lines of Carcassonne - ie easy to pick up and quick to play - looking to expand my collection a bit.
Interesting...
But I was thinking not so much similar to Carcassonne in terms of game type, more games that are different but similarly accessible and light (Carcassonne being extremely easy to grasp, but also very deep and rewarding the more of it you play). Anything with too many tokens/dice/cards/whatever, or anything that looks too complex or serious (wizards and goblins etc) isn't going to fly with my girlfriend. At the moment I'm swaying towards Catan, Ticket To Ride, Alhambra and Tsuro.
Should mention that before I left the UK I had about 15 various friends and family thoroughly addicted to Carcassonne, and helped to shift at least 3 extra copies and assorted expansions!
I've just ordered some games for an event we're putting on at work.
One that came highly recommended was Love Letter. It's a card game for 2 or more players and is apparently brilliant, strategic and easy to learn. Only takes 20-30 minutes to play too.
I also ordered an X-Wing core set for some quick dog fights, Carcassonne, Munchkin and a few other bits that I can't remember.
I also ordered an X-Wing core set for some quick dog fights, Carcassonne, Munchkin and a few other bits that I can't remember.
Don't buy Cards Against Humanity if you want to stay in a relationship with your other half though...
...Inns and Cathedrals, which make for a much nastier, more competitive game - leading a friend to dub the game 'Carcasshole'.
Ah, never mind - I misremembered, it was James Stacey!
Would really appreciate if anyone has any suggestions for games along the lines of Carcassonne - ie easy to pick up and quick to play - looking to expand my collection a bit.
Inns & Cathedrals really does add a bit of savagery to the game, a great expansion: the tension of playing for a Cathedral! The pack-in River expansion does my head in, though: I'm this close to amending the source-tile with a sharpie so that it's impossible to claim a mega-farm if you go first. We seldom use it as things stand.
What I love about Carcasonne (and indeed Cataan) is the all-ages appeal. We can have properly competitive games of both with my 7-yr old, and have for more than a year.
Freaking awesome game! Work your way up the sail barge knocking Gamorrean Guards into the gaping maw below! Me and the kids had fun with it until a chance elbow knocked the barge and caused everyone to be slowly digested over a thousand years.
We haven't encountered the river/farmer problem as we're only just now getting our heads round how farmers actually work. I just like the river because it makes for a more interesting start to the game and makes for a more pleasing board. I've also only just realised that I've been playing with the wrong rules all along - giving the full score for an unfinished city - oops.
Also, if anyone can explain to me how the 'builder' meeple from the 'Traders and Builders' expansion works I'd be very grateful - I've read and reread the instructions several times and can't make head nor tail of it.
That's pretty much how I understand it, but it seems quite overpowered to me.
So as long as the player is able to add their first tile to the road or city with the builder on, they can play an extra tile and do the same every turn until that structure is complete (and the builder is returned to them to play again?).
Cool, thanks for the clarification - I'll probably end up getting those expansions at some point.
I was in Powell's yesterday (awesome, huge bookshop here in Portland) and saw posters advertising a board game event being held there this Saturday - gonna try and sneak down there at some point, sounds awesome.
Also to celebrate the event DriveThruRPG are giving away $70 worth of RPG games for free this weekend. Worth a look, especially to get the World of Darkness core book for zero creds.
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=128081&it=1&SRC=Newsletter_FPW_text (http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=128081&it=1&SRC=Newsletter_FPW_text)
Cool. It's mainly the ferries, stations and tunnels that look a bit (potentially) confusing. Is it possible to ignore them and just treat all routes as normal to keep things simple for a first game?
I taught my 9 year old to play Talisman this week. It's great.
I taught my 9 year old to play Talisman this week. It's great.
That's one game I have to try out, just to say I have. Has a reputation with some gamers I know as boring.
I taught my 9 year old to play Talisman this week. It's great.
That's one game I have to try out, just to say I have. Has a reputation with some gamers I know as boring.
Has anyone still got a copy of the old Games Workshop game 'Warlock'? I only played it one summer years ago and it has left an impression on me as the ultimate board game when we were in the midst of playing Talisman with its expansions, D&D and of course, the Judge Dredd board game.
Has anyone still got a copy of the old Games Workshop game 'Warlock'? I only played it one summer years ago and it has left an impression on me as the ultimate board game when we were in the midst of playing Talisman with its expansions, D&D and of course, the Judge Dredd board game.
Yep,its a great wee game. In fact i might have two!
Has anyone still got a copy of the old Games Workshop game 'Warlock'? I only played it one summer years ago and it has left an impression on me as the ultimate board game when we were in the midst of playing Talisman with its expansions, D&D and of course, the Judge Dredd board game.
Yep,its a great wee game. In fact i might have two!
Oooo, fancy selling it? I've been after a copy for years!
...it's quite expensive and I don't think I'd get much opportunity to play it.
#Send me a PM if its in a saleable condition! Many thanks for checking!Has anyone still got a copy of the old Games Workshop game 'Warlock'? I only played it one summer years ago and it has left an impression on me as the ultimate board game when we were in the midst of playing Talisman with its expansions, D&D and of course, the Judge Dredd board game.
Yep,its a great wee game. In fact i might have two!
Oooo, fancy selling it? I've been after a copy for years!
I'll check the condition etc...think i bought a second copy cus my original was getting tatty...if it's all there i am sure we can come to an arrangement :)
I find that tablet and phone games have really boosted my interest in boardgaming. There are some great conversions out there at a fraction of the price of their cardboard equivalents. I've often used ios conversions to test the water with an unknown game before buying the "proper" set for the family....it's quite expensive and I don't think I'd get much opportunity to play it.
That's always the equation alright: I don't mind taking a punt on something cheap with the possibility that I won't get to play it more than once, but when you're looking at the higher price stuff I need to know that I'm going to be playing it at least several times a year, for a few years at least. Otherwise it just becomes embarrassing, a big box sitting there on the shelf reminding you of your foolishness.
That said, on Saturday I saw copies of Carcassonne and Catan in a regular toy shop - I've heard of such things in other lands, but never here. Got to be good news, set against the tide of tablet-and-phone-based games.
Good to hear Catan is getting about. Once played Cakes of Catan and it was pretty much the best thing ever. Lands were cupcakes, roads were chocolate fingers and castles were wine gums. Mmm let me eat your army x x x
OOOOOOhhh!
Just remembered I've a Dredd boardgame in my parents' loft. One for me and my boys this long weekend.
Forbidden Island
Forbidden Island
I have this in the post on the way to me. Your thoughts?
Forbidden Island
I have this in the post on the way to me. Your thoughts?
I think it's a great game. It can be very hard on the higher difficulties, but it's a fun game, and one which kids can pick up very easily.
Cool! Timothy - is that tin reasonably robust, and roughly how big is it? Where did you get yours from, Otter, and roughly how much?
Cool! Timothy - is that tin reasonably robust, and roughly how big is it? Where did you get yours from, Otter, and roughly how much?
Has anyone played the Judge Dredd Miniatures Game by Mongoose? If so, what did they think about the game and the miniatures?
That really is a big concern about the MC-1 Judges, let's face it, they're the faction everyone will want to play at least initially! I was thinking of buying them as much to paint and display them as collectibles as use them for games but this has me concerned, particularly as some gamers I know have unfavourable things to say about Mongoose in general.
Cor, I spent a few minutes the FLGS luxuriating in the now-extensive X-Wing range... it really is something. That Tantive IV may just be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen: standing in front of it I found myself wondering whether I had anything else worth selling. By far the best versions of the SW spaceships produced to date, even leaving aside the game itself - I really may have to do something about this game.
In the meantime, Zombie Dice has proved to be a sensation round our way. Simple, quick, portable, vast potential for groaning lurching hilarity. You haven't heard 'braaaiiiinsss...' until you've heard a 4 year-old who's just rolled 8 in a single turn...
I had both sets of these as a kid - in fact, I'm pretty sure I've still got them around somewhere. Some of the images hail from pretty arcane sources - the Madman one, for instance, is one of the afflicted villagers out of the Doomwatch movie, and I think The Thing is a bat-rat spider out of the film The Angry Red Planet.
I remember having the planes, ships and aliens sets but nothing as good as these. I get the classic horror characters but who is Zoltan? Isn't he the one who granted Tom Hanks' wish in Big? I hope I never have to find out. Also, looks like the cyclops has had his only eye out with that tree. Clumsy bugger.
The Death card - always my favourite, and present in the second link - has a really unexpected origin. (The clip suggests it's an alien from the Logan's Run tv series.)
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Was there a 'fashion sense' category that was dropped at the last moment?
Maybe he was auditioning for Doctor Who.
I'm sure this has been mentioned elsewhere before, but it was (welcome) news to me!
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Maybe he was auditioning for Doctor Who.
Actually, I was going to suggest that the clothes look a bit like something Pertwee's Doctor would have worn!
Okay reading Garth Ennis' War Stories 1 really reminded me of an old game I used to love which I think (from a Google search) was called B-17 Queen of the Skies. Anyone remember it... or more to the point know if there were any other similar games. See I've looked at some pictures and while some if it rings bells some bits don't.
Tried a quick practice game of Love Letter the other day. It's OK, but rounds seem to end suddenly, often randomly. I suspect it's much more fun when played with more than two players.
I may have asked earlier in the thread, but does anyone know of anyone really good two-player games?
Anyone played Zombicide? Saw it in Waterstones and thought my boy might like it.
but Cards Against Humanity was the standout. Haven't laughed so much in a long time. Think I've successfully sold a couple more copies of each.
Played quite a bit of Qwirkle with various family members over Xmas.
I introduced my nine year old to the joys of Carcassonne last weekend. She thrashed me.
Just treated myself to Space Hulk as Ive wanted to play it since I was a kid :). Anyone got an opinion on this? Seems to get raved about in reviews.
Where did you get your Space Hulk from Satanist?
I had a similar nostalgic urge to get it recently and it seemed to be out of print (with the last one being a pre-order only and they're already gone sort of deal).
Where did you get your Space Hulk from Satanist?
I had a similar nostalgic urge to get it recently and it seemed to be out of print (with the last one being a pre-order only and they're already gone sort of deal).
I loved Talisman as a kid and I love it now.
Got the Grim Reaper expansion for Christmas and played it for the first time this week. Absolutely awesome, makes the game even more immersive and fun.
I should really watch some more episodes of Tabletop, but there's something about Wil Wheaton that I find a bit grating. I'm sure he's a nice guy and all, but I find it hard to make it through those videos.
Remember - Saturday is National tabletop game day, so make sure to celebrate by breaking out your favorite boardgames.
I picked up a copy of Tsuro yesterday after seeing a demonstration. Haven't had a chance to play it yet but it looks very accessible. I'm hoping it will prove to be a good family game like Qwirkle has been.
Could be just the thing Radiator is looking for too.
Kickstarter for a boardgame version of Pat Mills' Requiem. Minis look gorgeous (but then they all do nowadays).
the sheriff gets to wear a shiny plastic badge.
the sheriff gets to wear a shiny plastic badge.
You should have opened with that.
Hadn't really appreciated that the Assassinorum miniatures would need glued and assembled (think when I was getting similar games years ago like Advanced Heroquest they were snap together pieces). Spend a good chunk of Saturday putting them all together and really enjoyed it so maybe I've found a new hobby. Now looking into how to paint them...
Hadn't really appreciated that the Assassinorum miniatures would need glued and assembled (think when I was getting similar games years ago like Advanced Heroquest they were snap together pieces). Spend a good chunk of Saturday putting them all together and really enjoyed it so maybe I've found a new hobby. Now looking into how to paint them...
This guy is putting together a great guide (and his minis look fantastic painted up) for Assassinorum: http://boardgamegeek.com/article/19189712#19189712
looking over the rules I was a little worried about there not being a campaign or a set of missions to go through.
I am finding myself increasingly drawn to Dungeons and Dragons after finding masses of interesting reads in blogs for homebrew content (Goblin Punch is amazing stuff, the Dungeon Dozen is a great format for brainstorming ideas) but keep wondering where to play it :/
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I am finding myself increasingly drawn to Dungeons and Dragons after finding masses of interesting reads in blogs for homebrew content (Goblin Punch is amazing stuff, the Dungeon Dozen is a great format for brainstorming ideas) but keep wondering where to play it :/
Me and my brother have been trying to figure out how to run a game together for a while, he's in Canada and I'm in Scotland but we're convinced there must be a way to make it Skype-able!
Munchkin should this game be played by adults or their children or both?
I have the core rules for their spin on Dungeons & Dragons, but slightly water damaged.
Wonder if there is compendium.
Any new news on the Munchkin Apocalypse: Judge Dredd release date? I think it was mentioned somewhere upthread (the expansion, not the release date).
We (currently) have six new boosters on the schedule for the rest of 2015. In no particular order, and without giving away too much, I can tell you that:
One of them is Munchkin Apocalypse: Judge Dredd, which is in Steve's hands for some TLC. (Steve is the Law!) We still expect to see it this fall.
From here: http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/news/archive.html (http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/news/archive.html)
You said you can play Munchkin with 2 players, Sheridan, but I had thought the minimum was 3 (I haven't played it yet). Do you have experience with 2 players, with modified rules maybe?
What would be a good recommendation for three players; me, Mrs Tips (slightly more prudish than the rest of the family) and Tiny Tips (now actually 15 and following in his father's footsteps)?I got Fluxx (http://www.looneylabs.com/games/fluxx) recently. Only played it a couple of times but it's quite fast and fun.
Do we talk about Card games on this thread?
About to go camping and want something other than UNO to play at nights.
I understand there are lots of modern style card games (not Ace, King, Queen, Jack type cards) out there.
What would be a good recommendation for three players; me, Mrs Tips (slightly more prudish than the rest of the family) and Tiny Tips (now actually 15 and following in his father's footsteps)?
I'll back up Fluxx (lots of different editions available - Family Fluxx may be best to cater to Mrs Tips, though have a look at the other themed versions available).What would be a good recommendation for three players; me, Mrs Tips (slightly more prudish than the rest of the family) and Tiny Tips (now actually 15 and following in his father's footsteps)?I got Fluxx (http://www.looneylabs.com/games/fluxx) recently. Only played it a couple of times but it's quite fast and fun.
And, of course, if you get bored of playing it you can say stuff like: "Not bloody Flux again!"
Also played Cards Against Humanity while on hols which was a good drunken laugh and was worth the money just to hear my 70 year old dad spout obscenities. I imagine this gets boring even faster than the above.
Also played Cards Against Humanity while on hols which was a good drunken laugh and was worth the money just to hear my 70 year old dad spout obscenities. I imagine this gets boring even faster than the above.
I think that to work, this game does require:
a) lots of alcohol
b) at least one elderly relative who isn't quite sure what they're doing.
I'm now far too deep into an X-Wing addiction...
I'm now far too deep into an X-Wing addiction...
You get the epic ships? ;)
Still to give X-Wing a go, I think the boy has 2 x-wing 3 tie fighters and slave-1. The ships are v expensive for what they are but do look nice. I'm guessing the games a bit good then?
Next game I fancy is Muchkin or Munchkin:Apocalypse but they can wait for now.
Yeah, the ships are expensive. But I figure that for every time I don't go the the Vue for a movie or don't go out for a night of drinking, I can afford a couple more ships..!So there's no way you could have a tournament in the pub...?
Yeah, the ships are expensive. But I figure that for every time I don't go the the Vue for a movie or don't go out for a night of drinking, I can afford a couple more ships..!So there's no way you could have a tournament in the pub...?
I feel the conflict within you. Let go of your wallet.
Next game I fancy is Muchkin or Munchkin:Apocalypse but they can wait for now.Munchkin Apocalypse can wait, but for how long (it was announced almost a year ago now - 15 cards are sure taking a long time to produce)
2. Games Workshop is ultra-protective of their IPFunny that - considering how much WH40K 'borrowed' from Termight/Dredd (not to mention Alien, Terminator, et al).
2. Games Workshop is ultra-protective of their IPFunny that - considering how much WH40K 'borrowed' from Termight/Dredd (not to mention Alien, Terminator, et al).
Oh aye, I've no time for all that anti-fan B*****ks, but when you have a vast brick-and-mortar empire that depends entirely on kids buying your crap and only your crap, and not using their imagination in the way that gamng normally encourages, I can see the value of being ultra-proscriptive. If your consumers can make up their own stuff, what do they need your over-priced skull-mountains for?
Recently had great fun playing Dobble and Pass the Pig with my brother and sister-in-law.Yep, Dobble is another good one - one set of cards with about four or five rules variants.
Really recommend Dobble; it's a card game available for about £12 from Amazon.
As the drink gets drunk, these become even more fun.
Have just picked up Carcassonne for Bea's birthday tomorrow, we used to really enjoy playing the Xbox 360 version so thought she'd appreciate the physical game! Should be fun.
Recently had great fun playing Dobble and Pass the Pig with my brother and sister-in-law.
Really recommend Dobble; it's a card game available for about £12 from Amazon.
As the drink gets drunk, these become even more fun.
I'll check out Dobble (I think it's called something else over here).
I'm going to stay with a mate next week and we'll be playing some X-Wing and Descent - both of which I've played a little before but it's hard to find people that want to play.
We'll also be playing something called Dead of Winter that's supposed to be really good.
Dead of Winter is superb. You will come to hate the exposure dice.This sounds like an entirely different sort of game.
Dead of Winter is superb. You will come to hate the exposure dice.This sounds like an entirely different sort of game.
Next game I fancy is Muchkin or Munchkin:Apocalypse but they can wait for now.Munchkin Apocalypse can wait, but for how long (it was announced almost a year ago now - 15 cards are sure taking a long time to produce)
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Current fave is Patchwork, the latest bit of 2 player fun from Uwe Rosenberg. It really is a cracking little game.
Current fave is Patchwork, the latest bit of 2 player fun from Uwe Rosenberg. It really is a cracking little game.
That looks right up my alley. Any reason it's so expensive to buy (£50+)? Rarity?
So Machi Koro is a hit - we've played half a dozen times this week with two, three and four players, and it's converted a friend, who previously had zero interest, to board games. :D
Well if it helps I'd recommend sticking with the non-deluxe version - we played a round with the Harbor expansion yesterday, and while it was good it did make the game drag on way past it's welcome me and people were getting a bit fed up by the end.
Well if it helps I'd recommend sticking with the non-deluxe version - we played a round with the Harbor expansion yesterday, and while it was good it did make the game drag on way past it's welcome me and people were getting a bit fed up by the end.
That does indeed help - as does your Carcassonne comparison (probably the default boardgame in our house - although Quirkle and Fluxx are contenders - so it's a handy barometer). Think I'll rustle up the cash for the vanilla edition next time a client deigns to pay me.
But oh, the possibilities of Travel Catan!
We've been playing a few rounds of Coup. It's fun but always over a little too quickly, and a fatal flaw with the game so far is, at least with my group, hardly anyone ever tries to bluff, so the vast majority of the time challenges fail and winning or losing ultimately just comes down to how lucky you were with the original cards you were dealt.
Looking forward to playing again though, this time with four or five players instead of just three.
I googled out of curiosity and found a lot of threads on the Boardgamegeek boards where people are saying the same thing, essentially that the expansions introduce an element of randomness to the buildings (cards) on 'sale' for players to add to their hand (it's fixed in the base game), and though this is a great idea in theory, if you're unlucky the marketplace can get clogged with useless cards no one wants to buy, and it slows progress to a crawl. And this is exactly what happened to us. What should be a bright and breezy little 'one more go' game turns into a painfully slow war of attrition. I think they need to tweak the rules a bit.
I do like the Carcassonne expansions, but we tend to find that one at a time is enough - anything more that that tends to make it drag a bit. The beauty of games like Carcassonne and MK is their simplicity, and that they leave you wanting more, but sometimes it's best to leave it that way.
We've been playing a few rounds of Coup. It's fun but always over a little too quickly, and a fatal flaw with the game so far is, at least with my group, hardly anyone ever tries to bluff, so the vast majority of the time challenges fail and winning or losing ultimately just comes down to how lucky you were with the original cards you were dealt.
Looking forward to playing again though, this time with four or five players instead of just three.
Yes, that would be a problem - I can't imagine playing Coup and not having most or all of the people trying to bluff.
Got a taste of 7 Wonders today, zipped along pretty quick and that game included two of us who had it never played it before.How many of you played? There's a (pretty rubbish) two-person variant, but I think it works best with four or five players.
Got a taste of 7 Wonders today, zipped along pretty quick and that game included two of us who had it never played it before.How many of you played? There's a (pretty rubbish) two-person variant, but I think it works best with four or five players.
Just three. They have a version for two players now called 7 Wonders: Duel.The two-player game I played was with the usual 7 Wonders cards but a few different rules.
Only a Cooke of games in, but Coip Rebellion is shaping up to be very good indeed. There are 25 different roles in all, and 5 are chosen for play in each game, balance being maintained by having the roles in distinct groups dependent on what they do and one role from each group (two for special interest) forming the five. Each is subtly different and keeping track of what all the powers are and how they interact makes it play very differently to vanilla Coup. So far I've found it slower to accumulate money, but that may just be inexperience.
Speaking of The Grizzled and Dead of Winter, what's everyone's thoughts on cooperative board games? I'm curious to give one a try, but wonder if playing one can really capture that same excitement and sense of urgency of a traditional competitive game?
Let me know how Dixit is. I've watched a few videos on it and while it seems like an intriguing concept I still don't understand how it works at all.
Any Christmas games, folks? Our family scooped the Minecraft card game, Monopoly Deal and the U.K. map for Ticket to Ride. The first two have been played and enjoyed, the last one saved for tomorrow.I've had a copy of Unspeakable Words (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24304/unspeakable-words) for a few months but not played it yet, shall probably do that tomorrow. This Christmas I received Fairytale Gloom (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/172062/fairytale-gloom), which was surprising as I hadn't even heard that it had been released!
Gozanti-class Imperial Assault Carrier
Gozanti-class Imperial Assault Carrier
That thing is so beautiful, I so nearly caved when I saw it... But 77 yo-yos! :o
Cthulhu diceVery lightweight game - probably best for choosing who goes first in another game!
Batman Love LetterAnother lightweight game to learn, but one you can play repeatedly as it can take on different strategies depending on who you're playing with.
MunchkinHope that Judge Dredd expansion (15 or 25 cards, can't remember which) comes out soon - it was supposed to have come out in 2015.
Only played Munchkin so far but it seemed like fun.
Batman Story Dice (don't really see the point but nice idea)Maybe to help improve Frank Miller's output?
ARKHAM HORRORGood luck - let us know how many games it takes you to actually survive! I've only played once and we were killed by Cthulhu himself (itself?) within about two hours - pretty quick for Arkham.
Today, we shall make our attempt to fathom this tome of rituals. I ask for God to have mercy on us but I fear we may only call the dread attention of something far older and far greater than he....
I got a game called Perudo off my cousin. Haven't played it yet but it looks interesting - its a kind of bluffing/tactical dice game from South America.
ARKHAM HORROR
Good luck - let us know how many games it takes you to actually survive! I've only played once and we were killed by Cthulhu himself (itself?) within about two hours - pretty quick for Arkham.
Played another half dozen rounds of One Night Ultimate Werewolf the other night with 9 players. So much fun!
Great game! Looking forward to another round tonight. Just wondering how we can best keep all those little tokens together in the box.First rule of boardgaming - invest in ziplock bags (of varying sizes).
Played another half dozen rounds of One Night Ultimate Werewolf the other night with 9 players. So much fun!
Never heard of this, but your enthusiasm has led to me taking a punt and buying a copy on Amazon.
Too late for this festive season, but it'll be handy to have for the next family get-together.
The Coup/Resistance themed One Night Revolution is basically a reskin of the same game and is, for that reason, also great fun.
Make sure you buy the right version - One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a stripped-down, condensed variant of the classic party game Werewolf (sometimes called Mafia) which is available in a number of different editions. I own Ultimate Werewolf Ultimate Edition too, but it looks a lot more drawn-out and involved, needs 10+ players to be worthwhile, requires a human moderator and has player elimination.
Is it OK to discuss miniature-related stuff in this thread?
Instead, I found this marvellous idea on the web that I wanted to share in case it's of use to anyone.There seems to been something similar in Games Workshop's Judge Dredd RPG (http://www.waynesbooks.com/images/graphics/judgedreddrpgboxset.jpg) back in the eighties (those ones could stand up though).
This gamer (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/623920.page?userfilterid=54729) printed out aerial views of infantry squads from pictures of computer game sprites and stuck them to card to create his army. I never would have thought of that. I think it looks OK, if used alongside miniatures for vehicles, buildings, etc.
The JD:RPG cutouts were great, the judges were taken from a number of artists, so you could be a Colin Wilson judge, a McMahon judge, a Bolland judge etc. Lovely floorplans and moveable hab-furnishings too.From GW's point of view, the JDRPG cardboard cut-outs were just stand-ins until they'd released the lead miniatures. Flicking through my WH40k rulebooks (1993 and 1998) and WFRP rulebook it looks like, with the advent of fairly detailed plastic figures, they'd ditched the idea of cardboard stand-ins for starter units made up of identical figures, though the equipment list in the 1993 rulebook does feature card cut-out ruins, Ork dreadnought and the line "Although this is no real substitute for a Citadel model, it does allow you to fight a game immediately using the extra Dreadnought rules in this book".
Could be misremembering, but I think a lot of early GW games came with cut-out armies and terrain. Certainly the first two Warhammer battles I ever played did. The awesome SJG Car Wars too. Hard to imagine that happening now.
And of course many games since have done likewise.
The JD:RPG cutouts were great, the judges were taken from a number of artists, so you could be a Colin Wilson judge, a McMahon judge, a Bolland judge etc. Lovely floorplans and moveable hab-furnishings too.
Could be misremembering, but I think a lot of early GW games came with cut-out armies and terrain. Certainly the first two Warhammer battles I ever played did. The awesome SJG Car Wars too. Hard to imagine that happening now.
And of course many games since have done likewise.
From GW's point of view, the JDRPG cardboard cut-outs were just stand-ins until they'd released the lead miniatures.
Could be misremembering, but I think a lot of early GW games came with cut-out armies and terrain. Certainly the first two Warhammer battles I ever played did. The awesome SJG Car Wars too. Hard to imagine that happening now.
And of course many games since have done likewise.
Could be misremembering, but I think a lot of early GW games came with cut-out armies and terrain. Certainly the first two Warhammer battles I ever played did. The awesome SJG Car Wars too. Hard to imagine that happening now.
And of course many games since have done likewise.
Heh, they reprinted Car Wars two years, all the counters came punched when I got it! Still have black and white maps.
Speaking of card-based Judges, the JD Munchkin Apocalypse is available for pre-order. I don't know whether that means it's imminent or whether it just means it will definitely be out but they don't know when.I hope so, been waiting since late 2014 now, though unfortunately nothing in that link makes me think it's any closer than it has been for the past year :-(
http://www.miniaturemarket.com/sjg4248.html (http://www.miniaturemarket.com/sjg4248.html)
I was thinking of these of theses...I did realise after I posted that something went missing from my room. That those game box and the other one I don't recall might have been left piled on shelf right next to the bed I never sleep on and totally obscured. Because my bed is right next to this shelf and I hardly bother poke around down there. Anyway, it does turn out that the game box still alludes me. Unfortunately!!!(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vpmJzf42EA0/TyaEQQi1xtI/AAAAAAAAAz0/Z2xWsxJ1f3I/s1600/Judge_Dredd_RPG-GW.jpg)
One of which I brought from a comic bookstore down south very cheaply. From which I was provided with hours of informtainment while living rough in Sydney.
When began imagine sort type computer game where you could build you own Mega-City populate with the famous characters from the book.
The book was pretty worn though and I purchased another through Ebay in near mint condition along with(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic530367_md.jpg)(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic530382_md.jpg)
The books aren't with me now, I vividly remember carrying these into the other house I'm moving into.
I once did have plans to own every board game related to 2000AD, and so far only bothered to buy tow of them....
I only remember one clearly called Block-Wars....(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic52953_md.jpg)(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic212446_md.jpg)(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic212447_md.jpg)(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic212449_md.jpg)(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic492797_md.jpg)(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic492799_md.jpg)(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic1546884_md.png)(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic2567454_md.jpg)
And the other I have no recollection of it.
Because they are not where I thought I left them and it odes look like somebody walked into our house and into my room and did a snatch n grab while I wasn't looking.
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It's the home violation that really hurts and the fact that people in my family are not going to support my fears and accusations.
Yet, they probably thought I wasn't using those any way and decided to relieve me of their burden .
I also had my sights set on a near mint Rogue Trooper board game , but I lost interest in getting any more of those, because I don't have any friends that do that and I'm bound some of the tiny pieces of cardboard.
I started a family FRPG campaign (Dragon Warriors rules, homebrew setting) last spring, and am now tormented for additional sessions every waking minute
The Root Races(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5478/9760007974_1b435a852d_z.jpg)
*sigh*
Does every thread on this board eventually have to become mired in interminable and impenetrable stream of consciousness nonsense about Slaine?
*sigh*
Does every thread on this board eventually have to become mired in interminable and impenetrable stream of consciousness nonsense about Slaine?
Just got the Mrs Ticket to Ride for Mothers day so looking forward to a game with the family on Sunday. Never played it but have only heard good reports.
There's an app version of Ticket to Ride, which is good for learning the rules as well as being an enjoyable game itself.
Have only played the videogame version but at least that means we'll have a rough idea what's going on!
Yep, our games usually come down to a death struggle over farms between the missus and me, all our meeples lying prone as we try to join up our fields while the Boy racks up cheap city and road points with his ambulant army. Definitely the most fun part of the game.
Damnit but that sounds like an arsom evening. We all need more of that in our lives.
We took your advice radiator, played Carcassonne without the farmers or the rivers rules. Meant we could get up and running and get to grips with it fast which was great. Was a lot of fun, particularly liked how quick it is to set-up and get through a game as it means it'll see a lot more use than some of the (still great but) more long-winded games we have.Next time I play I'll have to try it without the river tiles or the farmers. Wondering what it'll be like. In further games, I imagine things like the princess and dragon would lose a lot of their point without farmers.
We took your advice radiator, played Carcassonne without the farmers or the rivers rules. Meant we could get up and running and get to grips with it fast which was great. Was a lot of fun, particularly liked how quick it is to set-up and get through a game as it means it'll see a lot more use than some of the (still great but) more long-winded games we have.Did you just play with two people? While it does work, it becomes much more interesting with the addition of a third.
Had my eye on a game "Betrayal at house on the Hill" for a wee while now, anyone played this?
Also quite fancy "Colt Express".
We took your advice radiator, played Carcassonne without the farmers or the rivers rules. Meant we could get up and running and get to grips with it fast which was great. Was a lot of fun, particularly liked how quick it is to set-up and get through a game as it means it'll see a lot more use than some of the (still great but) more long-winded games we have.Did you just play with two people? While it does work, it becomes much more interesting with the addition of a third.
Boardgamegeek.com actually rates Carcassonne as 'best with 2 players', and while I wouldn't go that far, I do agree that its fine with just two.Fair enough. It's perfectly playable with two but I just felt that it lost a lot in only being head to head where just one extra player adds a whole extra level of who will fuck who over.
Boardgamegeek.com actually rates Carcassonne as 'best with 2 players', and while I wouldn't go that far, I do agree that its fine with just two.Fair enough. It's perfectly playable with two but I just felt that it lost a lot in only being head to head where just one extra player adds a whole extra level of who will fuck who over.
Yeah. That's pretty much what I meant by "better."It becomes more strategic with 2 players. The more players you add, means the more chance that someone will render your city uncompletable, or block your move to have more meeples in a mega-city, which makes planning ahead much harder.Boardgamegeek.com actually rates Carcassonne as 'best with 2 players', and while I wouldn't go that far, I do agree that its fine with just two.Fair enough. It's perfectly playable with two but I just felt that it lost a lot in only being head to head where just one extra player adds a whole extra level of who will fuck who over.
Could anyone please elaborate on the suitability of Colt Express for player number, age and duration?
Oh and thanks Dark Jimbo, I think I'll get Colt Express for my B'day as most games are with the kids these days.
FROGMEN!
This is starting to remind me of the time our characters had to hide out in a toadmen brothel, waiting for a Todorini naval officer to turn up so we could blackmail him... It was fine until we started thinking about how a toad brothel would actually work, biologically...Frogspawn all over the (knocking) shop!
Frogspawn all over the (knocking) shop!
I won at Munchkin last night for the first time. Kneel before Zod!
We are almost probably definitely going to play X-wing this weekend and I also need to read up on basic D&D as they want a game up and running in time for Easter hols.
Hadn't seen the Basic Rules (http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules) before - I'm not au fait enough to actually DM a game (despite having played various versions of D&D since red box days (!) but shall have to go through that.
The Starter Set is a really good introduction, only downside is that its layout is a bit weak with monster and NPC stats found at the back rather than alongside their main entries. I can see why for both but I would recommend using your phone to take pictures of stat blocks so you can see a goblin's attacks/etc without having to move from page to page every five seconds.
Played Pandemic for the first time last night and we all lost but it was still great fun. The kids loved the co-op aspect of it and it was good to see them reacting to the various outbreaks and coming up with their plans. We played it at its easiest level and it was genuinely quite tense & exciting . The rules are very straight forward and seem to have been very well thought out. Cracking stuff.
Played Pandemic for the first time last night and we all lost but it was still great fun. The kids loved the co-op aspect of it and it was good to see them reacting to the various outbreaks and coming up with their plans. We played it at its easiest level and it was genuinely quite tense & exciting . The rules are very straight forward and seem to have been very well thought out. Cracking stuff.
If anything I prefer the games that see humanity wiped out! I love the tension of that turn where you can feel that everything hangs in the balance - you're either about to start gradually pulling things together or totally lose control of the situation.
I don't know if they came up in your first game, but it's the chain reactions that are the real killer - when a city that already has three cubes has to be re-infected, the disease spreads to every connecting city instead; and if any of those cities are already at three cubes, the same happens again... You can lose the game in a single turn!
We're playing Pandemic Legacy at the moment, which is even more tense, as outbreaks increase the panic level of a city, which persists between games (so you end up with cities becoming no-go areas due to rioting etc.)...
Still not ready for D&D just yet despite the kids daily reminders :lol: and my eldest just bought the monster manual with his B'day cash. Honestly who doesnt like a good monster manual and this ones great with loads of descriptions, stats and every creature has a lovely colour illustration.Apologies if you mentioned this upthread - I presume you have the Players Handbook and Dungeon Masters Guide already? PH is absolutely essential, it's probably a matter of personal preference which is most important out of DMG and MM. Are you playing 3.5 or 5th ed? (Apparently there was a version in between, but we don't talk about that!)
Not that I expect to be playing any of these games. I still like to flip through them to read random paragraphs & admire the new art-work. Which is a dramatic change from the art of the very first monster manuals. Just saying so, because the book usually has a lot of art in it!You can play by forum (not unlike this forum). rpggeek.com and probably rpg.net have such forums.
Anybody interested in starting the Official 2000AD Online R.P.G. Club .....
I would suggest, something light....to start with. I don't think I would be the best choice for Dungeon/Game-Master/Story-Teller either.
But will we be doing JD RPG from Games Workshop, the D20 based one or the Traveller based one? There's also Strontium Dog and Slaine games out there...Anybody interested in starting the Official 2000AD Online R.P.G. Club .....
I would suggest, something light....to start with. I don't think I would be the best choice for Dungeon/Game-Master/Story-Teller either.
Sounds interesting
Anybody interested in starting the Official 2000AD Online R.P.G. Club .....There's also... Slaine games out there...
Now you've done it! :oGood point - here's a brand, sparkly new thread (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=43226).
In the imminent face of impossibly long, rambling posts about the Slaine RPG, might this not be a good time to split all the RPG posts off into a seperate thread, and keep this one just for board games?
Stick with it; it's a wonderful game.
Is it too simplistic for an adult, non-geeky novice gamer? Any tips about first playthrough? We're going out tomorrow, so may try a post-pub (or Sunday hangover) game.
Any tips about first playthrough?
The portability of it is super handy, when you're heading to a friend's and unsure if you should take a game along it's something you can throw in a coat pocket as an afterthought (as I've done today).
One thing that I couldn't seem to find confirmation of either way in the Catan rules was whether or not the initial two settlements each player plays before the game begins count as points or not? Anyone know?
I don't think Catan is any more divisive than any other game, people just get ratty sometimes when someone keeps hitting them with the robber or so on. Depends how people are with competitiveness
Any recomendations for family card games? Looking for something for us to play on a long train journey so trying to steer clear of dice :lol:
Already have Love Letter and have my eye on Fluxx at the moment.
Exploding Kittens is a winner with all ages - it's essentially Uno meets Russian Roulette.
Exploding Kittens is a winner with all ages - it's essentially Uno meets Russian Roulette.
I know nothing about this, but there's no way this isn't great right?
The dice isn't rolled, so you shouldn't need to chase it. It's used in war for each player to indicate how many resources they are willing to commit to the conflict in secret.
The dice isn't rolled, so you shouldn't need to chase it. It's used in war for each player to indicate how many resources they are willing to commit to the conflict in secret.
ordered exploding kittens to take on holiday based on recommendations above - sounds fun! Anyone tried the NSFW version?
As for being 'NSFW', I would say it's fairly tame. One card has the word 'motherfucker' on it, and I'd have to check but IIRC there's nothing else that would be too offensive or vulgar for kids - mostly it's fairly mild potty humour type stuff. Have a look at The Oatmeal's website to get an idea of the kind of humour - Cards Against Humanity this ain't.
They sound good, Satanist.
Child friendly? I am going to London and back by train with the family in July.
And, also, had a great little game of Talisman with the boys on Sunday. Except I died.
"I need 3 clerics and a wizard"
I keep saying I'm going to stop buying board games, but they keep pulling me back in - http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/28/12315150/doom-the-board-game (http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/28/12315150/doom-the-board-game)BFG = Board Fucking Game!
Hmm looks a bit similar to Space Hulk for my money but then again DOOM!
Haven't kickstarted much in the past (only one videogame), and it was nice that as it blasted past stretch goals more and more was being added to it.
Do any of you chaps know how Pandemic Legacy might play with two players? I'd like to give it a go, but it'll likely just be me and Mrs Panther.
Big fan of Love Letter here though we have the Batman version so unsure if these differ. We use it as a warm up/travel game as it’s so quick and easy to play. I’d say the strategy comes from knowing there are only so many of each card and figuring out what’s left though I admit you can go out in first round due to a lucky guess. You should always have 2 cards in your hand and so for the most part 2 options (though not always as some cards work with each other)
I like Coup as well but find they are both very similar except you canliebluff in Coup.
There's not a lot to Love Letter, but it definitely helps to set to view each hand as an opportunity to win points, rather than a game to win or lose
I bought Star Realms ages ago after all the hype about how it's an amazing 2-player game but never got a chance to play it. I'm quite slow to learn rules on my own without playing and after spending ages to set it up my wife took one look at the space battle theme said, "I don't think this will be my kind of game," so I had to put it away. I got to play it a couple of times on holiday a few weeks ago with my brother-in-law and it seemed like it would eventually be a lot of fun, what with the alliance powers and defensive outposts but we were still learning it. Don't reckon I'll get another chance to play it for a year now, though.
Not being at all familiar with deckbuilding games*, I learned Star RealmsNot having played that particular game, but I'm going to guess so that you can increase the probability of getting more useful cards, depending on which phase of the game you're in?
*The inbuilt tutorial is good, but can't help but assume a certain level of player knowledge, and doesn't always give adequate context. For example it explains how to scrap cards, but doesn't explain why you'd want to do it.
We played Sheriff of Nottingham at the weekend and I learned that I cannot lie. The aim of the game is to sneak contraband through without getting caught. I failed so badly. Every time I declared I was transporting 3 bread instead of my actual load of crossbows I would start sniggering uncontrollably giving the game away. Quite a fun wee game and we all had a good laugh at how terrible I was.
Is GW still called that as I noticed the shop in Glasgow is now just WARHAMMERThink they started rebranding them about a year ago. They had to change the one in Newcastle back to GW as everyone kept thinking it was a hardware store.
Is GW still called that as I noticed the shop in Glasgow is now just WARHAMMERThink they started rebranding them about a year ago. They had to change the one in Newcastle back to GW as everyone kept thinking it was a hardware store.
Finally got around to playing a game of 7 Wonders last night.
I enjoyed it, but it seems a little over-complicated to work out scoring (to the point where it feels like maths homework, especially after a few pints) and there are so many different kinds of cards to memorise that we spent the entire game checking the reference sheet. As a result, I can't see this one really catching on with my group in the way that, say, the far more intuitive Splendour has.
We used to play Seven Wonders so much that I threw together a spreadsheet to aid in working out totals
Huh. Don't Rebellion own Mongoose, or did I imagine that? Wonder who, if anyone, will get the license now?They used to, but I believe the people who had previously run Mongoose bought the company back, or something like that.
After a long wait, the Judge Dredd booster pack to Munchkin Apocalypse has finally arrived.
http://icv2.com/articles/news/view/35825/judge-dredd-joins-munchkin-apocalypse (http://icv2.com/articles/news/view/35825/judge-dredd-joins-munchkin-apocalypse)
Bought and played Machi Koro for the first time at the weekend. Good fun game which needs a bit more space and time to play than its compact box would suggest.
New edition of Bloodbowl is released this Friday if anyones interested. Likely to sell out its initial run I suspect.
New edition of Bloodbowl is released this Friday if anyones interested. Likely to sell out its initial run I suspect.
Cursed GW! Money for the Money God!
New edition of Bloodbowl is released this Friday if anyones interested. Likely to sell out its initial run I suspect.
Cursed GW! Money for the Money God!
Having never played it but always wanting to my eldest boy is now getting this for his Xmas :lol:. I've also ordered Pandemic Legacy as the family game.
Anyone have any recommendations for board games for kids? I have a 4.5 year old niece to buy a Christmas present for.Something like Dobble (entirely picture-based, matching up symbols on circular cards)?
I got her My First Carcassonne for her birthday earlier this year, but suspect that it'll probably be a little while before she has the attention span to really get into it.
So ideally I'm looking for something a bit lighter, perhaps more gimmicky/luck-based?
Anyone have any recommendations for board games for kids? I have a 4.5 year old niece to buy a Christmas present for.Something like Dobble (entirely picture-based, matching up symbols on circular cards)?
I got her My First Carcassonne for her birthday earlier this year, but suspect that it'll probably be a little while before she has the attention span to really get into it.
So ideally I'm looking for something a bit lighter, perhaps more gimmicky/luck-based?
Anyone have any recommendations for board games for kids? I have a 4.5 year old niece to buy a Christmas present for.
I got her My First Carcassonne for her birthday earlier this year, but suspect that it'll probably be a little while before she has the attention span to really get into it.
So ideally I'm looking for something a bit lighter, perhaps more gimmicky/luck-based?
The thing that puts me off Exploding Kittens is the fact it's called exploding kittens, which suggests some sort of childish sense of humour which I don't find funny.
Been enjoying King of Tokyo over the last few days, but my misgivings about the 2-player game now extend into the multi-player endgame, where because it is quite easy for players to get knocked out early on, it can again devolve into a protracted punching match between the last two players. 20 VPs can be a long time coming if the survivors have been keeping out of Tokyo to that point. Am I missing something?
The end game should come quite quick if only 2 are left as whoever is in Tokyo keeps racking up the points for every round they stay in there. Also we rig the cards at the start of the game as there are quite a lot of rubbish ones.
Hmm, possibly what we have been missing is that the monster going in will get the usual 1VP for taking Tokyo, but also 2 VP for holding Tokyo because he'll be in there at the end of his turn, since it's only on his turn that he's dealing damage. I think we haven't been awarding the 2 VP unless he stays in until the end of his next turn, which no-one ever manages. Would that be right? Because that would certainly speed things up! As it is, there's usually one or two people hanging about chatting for a dozen rounds while the last two trade blows, because the survivors always have low VPs having concentrated on knocking the others out..
The thing that puts me off Exploding Kittens is the fact it's called exploding kittens, which suggests some sort of childish sense of humour which I don't find funny.
That's not to say childishness in general is bad.
Anyone have any recommendations for board games for kids? I have a 4.5 year old niece to buy a Christmas present for.
I got her My First Carcassonne for her birthday earlier this year, but suspect that it'll probably be a little while before she has the attention span to really get into it.
So ideally I'm looking for something a bit lighter, perhaps more gimmicky/luck-based?
Late now, but Haba make a decent range of kid-friendly stuff. My daughters got Unicorns in the Clouds, Animal Upon Animal and Mix & Match Robbers from their catalogue for Christmas and they're all fun little titles, a mix of luck-based and dexterity-heavy gameplay with fun, simple aesthetics.
The thing that puts me off Exploding Kittens is the fact it's called exploding kittens, which suggests some sort of childish sense of humour which I don't find funny.
That's not to say childishness in general is bad.
I would also say that the humour element, unlike something like Cards Against Humanity, is entirely cosmetic and has zero effect on actual gameplay (which can be described as a tense blend of Uno and Russian Roulette). There are also both clean and NSFW variants.
The thing that puts me off Exploding Kittens is the fact it's called exploding kittens, which suggests some sort of childish sense of humour which I don't find funny.
That's not to say childishness in general is bad.
I would also say that the humour element, unlike something like Cards Against Humanity, is entirely cosmetic and has zero effect on actual gameplay (which can be described as a tense blend of Uno and Russian Roulette). There are also both clean and NSFW variants.
Just had lunch with a friend who got Exploding Kittens and an expansion for christmas, so when they come around for drinks we'll have to have a go at it.
Is the new Bloodbowl good?
It is. I'm not sure when the last time you played is, but the version GW just released is not much different from the last edition of The Living Rulebook that's been developed online for many years. I've been playing in a BB league for quite some time and we've continued without a hitch. The rules are online for free.
The thing that puts me off Exploding Kittens is the fact it's called exploding kittens, which suggests some sort of childish sense of humour which I don't find funny.
That's not to say childishness in general is bad.
I would also say that the humour element, unlike something like Cards Against Humanity, is entirely cosmetic and has zero effect on actual gameplay (which can be described as a tense blend of Uno and Russian Roulette). There are also both clean and NSFW variants.
Just had lunch with a friend who got Exploding Kittens and an expansion for christmas, so when they come around for drinks we'll have to have a go at it.
Expansion, you say?
I'd love a 2000ad boardgame of some kind. These things have moved on so much since the 80s, there must be space for one. Even if it was crowd-funded, to gauge support, I'd be well up for it.
I'd love a 2000ad boardgame of some kind. These things have moved on so much since the 80s, there must be space for one. Even if it was crowd-funded, to gauge support, I'd be well up for it.
Definitely a gap in the market. I wonder how many people still play Block Mania (I'm going to guess now that Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper don't have the replayability as Block Mania and Mega Mania).
I remember making up my own Mean Team game.
I remember making up my own Mean Team game.
Ooh - Blood Bowl-esque?
I remember making up my own Mean Team game.
Ooh - Blood Bowl-esque?
Yep. And you could booby trap buildings. I sent it to Games Workshop and got a polite reply. I'd have been, ooh, 10 maybe
Funny you should mention Game of Thrones board game. I'm looking for ideas.
My wife has just started reading and loving the books and isn't ready for the telly show yet (she wants to finish the novels first) and its her birthday soon. So I thought for something a bit different we could get a board game 'I bet there's a good Game of Thrones' one ... but its says for three people and since we're not big games and don't know anyone who is I'd like it to be 2 player so we can play it together at home.
So all that context can someone recommend a good game for two people for someone who likes Games of Thrones that's quite straightforward for new games...
... I know not much to ask!
I'd love a 2000ad boardgame of some kind. These things have moved on so much since the 80s, there must be space for one. Even if it was crowd-funded, to gauge support, I'd be well up for it.
Definitely a gap in the market. I wonder how many people still play Block Mania (I'm going to guess now that Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper don't have the replayability as Block Mania and Mega Mania).
Try The Magic Labyrinth (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41916/magic-labyrinth) sometime. My kids (5 & 7) really enjoy the interactive nature of the 'invisible' walls.
There's a The Thing boardgame!
https://mondotees.com/blogs/news/the-thing-infection-at-outpost-31-board-game (https://mondotees.com/blogs/news/the-thing-infection-at-outpost-31-board-game)
There's a The Thing boardgame!
https://mondotees.com/blogs/news/the-thing-infection-at-outpost-31-board-game (https://mondotees.com/blogs/news/the-thing-infection-at-outpost-31-board-game)
Yes! The limited edition features artwork by Jock too, this is a very desireable thing to me. Being Mondo, those editions will sell out in seconds and all appear on ebay for twice the price within moments, but I'm definitely going to try for one.
I went to a launch event here in Portland last night for a game called Illimat that was co-created by one of my favourite bands The Decemberists.
I went to a launch event here in Portland last night for a game called Illimat that was co-created by one of my favourite bands The Decemberists.
Been playing this for a few nights now. It's essentially the old 'cassino' card game but with a few twists. The rules aren't *super* clear to begin with, but an hour on YouTube later and we realised we'd been playing it right. Better with more than two people, but a lot of fun. Certainly showed me how shoddy my basic arithmetic skills are.
reports haven't actually been all that positive about it
Nice! Did you back the Kickstarter? I found the game very confusing to start with, luckily we had a guy on hand to walk us through it and play a few rounds, which is always 1000% better than just reading the rulebook.
It's such a beautiful game and doesn't really look like anything else I've seen before. I think if you were to play in a pub or bar it would turn a lot of heads.
Also played Pandemic, a game I bounced off quite hard the first time a long time ago. This time with a clearer hand at the wheel it was very engaging even if we completely failed to save the world (but seemed like we were just steps away right up until East Asia collapsed).
Got Dead of Winter. Desperately want to play it with more people than my wife
Skull is wonderful - it only really comes alive with 5-6 players though I find.
Skull is wonderful - it only really comes alive with 5-6 players though I find.This is true. Most of our gaming is with a cadre of four players, and we know each-other so well that Skull can sometimes descend into a psycho-drama with all of us trying desperately to play against type. It's the kind of emergent gameplay that is part of the unique brilliance of tabletop gaming.
we wanted to play Skull but some other bugger had got it
Most of our gaming is with a cadre of four players
Flamme Rouge! Continuing our shameless stalking of Shut-Up & Sit Down for all board-gaming advice, we had our first couple of games. I had fun, especially when we introduced the interesting terrain, but... I dunno. The strategy is kind of simple, and with eight riders it seemed awfully random. Maybe the more advanced tracks will kick things up a notch. It sure is pretty, as well.
I did get the Hellboy board game at the weekend which looks very nice. I'd seen the Kickstarter but decided I really didn't have the time/space/need for another board game, but it turns out a couple of lunchtime pints before stopping into the board game shop was all we needed to put all that pesky rationalizing to one side and just get it.
I presume it's me, since it's very popular, but KD always seems to me to be unnecessarily horrible. Lots of willies and boobs and distended entrails in the service of, what, unpleasantness?Based on that alone, the SU&SD review was quite enough to put me off.
I've played quite a few sessions of KD:M. Apart from the juvenile sensibility, the game itself is just not very good. It relies on random events, which give you little warning of the outcome or control. The battles itself are essentially just dice rolling fests with minimal tactics. The only form of tactic or planning comes in the equipment of your characters and, in the games I played, there were very few options there.
There are many, many better games available at a fraction of the cost.
Can't disagree about the random events but I'd disagree strongly about the battles; positioning and survival expenditure are both critical tactical decisions which can have a huge impact on the outcome. In the early game the battles are a bit of a dice chucking fest as the survivors don't have much gear to provide options or survial to spend. Once survivors have some half decent gear and are facing some of the higher level monsters just running in and hitting with everything you've got is likely to just get you killed faster. Specialising your survivors into different roles is the route to success.
The dark judges expansion is now available for Judge Dredd: Helter Skelter.
Oh, I have also been re-creating the old game HeroQuest in paper mini and papercraft form.
Pics please Pictsy!
a certain PVS late of this Parish continues to delight - check out the video!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1662635043/book-of-the-dead (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1662635043/book-of-the-dead)
Don't know if y'all saw the recent exchange on Twitter, but Ian Livingstone suggested Rebellion reissue the JD BG for its 40th anniversary, and Jason Kingsley expressed his enthusiasm! Even asked about getting the art off Ian for scanning!
https://twitter.com/RebellionJason/status/1264949146202619905?s=20
Ah - PVS! You are greatly missed.a certain PVS late of this Parish continues to delight - check out the video!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1662635043/book-of-the-dead (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1662635043/book-of-the-dead)
Don't know if y'all saw the recent exchange on Twitter, but Ian Livingstone suggested Rebellion reissue the JD BG for its 40th anniversary, and Jason Kingsley expressed his enthusiasm! Even asked about getting the art off Ian for scanning!
pictsy your heroquest artwork looks stunning! an amazing project.
I struggled with that game. I think solo games just don’t hold an appeal, to be honest. Shame, because the art is good, as you say.
Anyway, the new game looks really pretty, with miniatures I'd love to paint.
My eldest child just asked for "a full set of dice" for Christmas. My work here is done.
Now... how far are you going to take that? I've gone as high as D30 but the never-stop-rolling* D100 is a) out of my price range and b) too bulky :)
*D30 take long enough to stop rolling - they're essentially a ball.
pffft well back in MY day, even D10s were considered naff as they're not regular polyhedrons, and the D20s all had 0-9 twice, none of this poncey double digits...
pffft well back in MY day, even D10s were considered naff as they're not regular polyhedrons, and the D20s all had 0-9 twice, none of this poncey double digits...
Those 0-9 d20s were the mark of a serious gamer when I was starting out - even my Moldvay Basic box had a 1-20 version. That also came with a crayon, of course, and as I ran my own D&D fiefdom for at least a year (maybe 2) before I met other gamers, I had absolutely no idea why.
Mention of modules reminds me of my first D&D set - the Basic boxed set from '81-ish:That was my first set as well, although I rapidly got hold of the DM's and Player's Guides.
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The module was "Keep on the Borderlands", but the plot is "commit genocide of the subhumans". It's brutal.
That was my first set as well
Deadly.That was my first set as well
Mine too. Still have it, still use it on occasion.
Keep on the Borderlands is unfathomably deadly for low-level characters (and the Moldvay set only covers Lvls 1-3) so I wouldn't feel too sorry for the targets of this particular genocide. My brother and our mates littered those caves with our corpses before I learned to fudge rolls and railroad the party into the 'right' caves.
I created a giant spreadsheet of KotB a few years back to facilitate a conversion to Dragon Warriors, putting in all the monster XP values, average damage outputs and treasure. It was sobering, bearing in mind the average 1st Level Magic User had 2.5 hit points and AC 10, which even a 1/2 HD Kobold will hit 50% the time for that much damage with just a sling stone.
I'm eyeing Iron Crown's Middle-Earth Roleplaying game online.
Game secured for click-and-collect from my FLGS. Happy dance!
I know there's nothing more boring than other people's D&D stories...
I've listened to more stories and recorded sessions of other peoples D&D games than I've actually played. Usually, as you yourself did, a good anecdote can be spun from most D&D game...
I like to make things.
I like to make things.
And seriously nice things they are too.
I was involved in helping do some design/artwork for a game called "Prisma Arena" -
I know there's nothing more boring than other people's D&D stories, but I wanted to highlight how there really is nothing like a tabletop RPG: even in this day and age of realistic multi-player computer games. A gaggle of complete noob teenagers sitting in their own homes can take a simple commercial rescue-a-dwarf introductory adventure and not-enough pre-gen characters and spin it up into over 2 months (so far) of completely unpredictable free fun.Nah. Maybe it's just the way you tell them but that was fun AND heart-warming.
Additional Beasts make Beasts of Balance an even better game.I was desperately trying to remember the name of this before Christmas but I couldn't find your old posts so o thought maybe if imagined it. Is it more of a kids game or will work for adults too?
Additional Beasts make Beasts of Balance an even better game.I was desperately trying to remember the name of this before Christmas but I couldn't find your old posts so o thought maybe if imagined it. Is it more of a kids game or will work for adults too?